sqlalchemy upsert supporting delayed ORM insertion and duplicate removal (inside a single query)

full_upsert.py

def upsert(session, model, rows):
    table = model.__table__
    stmt = postgresql.insert(table)
    primary_keys = [key.name for key in inspect(table).primary_key]
    update_dict = {c.name: c for c in stmt.excluded if not c.primary_key}

    if not update_dict:
        raise ValueError("insert_or_update resulted in an empty update_dict")

    stmt = stmt.on_conflict_do_update(index_elements=primary_keys,
                                      set_=update_dict)

    seen = set()
    foreign_keys = {col.name: list(col.foreign_keys)[0].column for col in table.columns if col.foreign_keys}
    unique_constraints = [c for c in table.constraints if isinstance(c, UniqueConstraint)]
    def handle_foreignkeys_constraints(row):
        for c_name, c_value in foreign_keys.items():
            foreign_obj = row.pop(c_value.table.name, None)
            row[c_name] = getattr(foreign_obj, c_value.name) if foreign_obj else None

        for const in unique_constraints:
            unique = tuple([const,] + [row[col.name] for col in const.columns])
            if unique in seen:
                return None
            seen.add(unique)

        return row

    rows = list(filter(None, (handle_foreignkeys_constraints(row) for row in rows)))
    session.execute(stmt, rows)

This has been written a long time and honestly I don't recall. I should've probably documented that snippet better...

I wrote this snippet while writing this SO answer, so it might be helpful in understanding the reason: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51567630/1146713

I think this was to keep foreign key values after or before the SQL upsert. Sorry I don't have a better answer